Wonderful® Pistachios Terms of Use

Terms of Use

Please read these terms and conditions before using this Service. By continuing to use the Site, you agree to the Terms of Use.

1. INTRODUCTION

Welcome to Wonderful® Pistachios’ Web Site, www.wonderfulpistachios.com (the “Site”). Paramount Farms, Inc. ("we", "us" or "our") provides the Site and the information and services offered on the Site to you, subject to the following Terms of Use ("TOU"). By using the Site, you agree to be bound by these TOU. We may, in our sole discretion, modify these TOU with or without notice to you. Please continue to periodically review these TOU when using the Site. By continuing to access and use the Site after these TOU have been modified, you are agreeing to such modifications. In addition, when using particular services or features on the Site, you shall be subject to any posted guidelines or rules applicable to such services or features that may be posted from time to time, including, without limitation, any new features or functionality (including, without limitation, video and related projects) that augment or enhance the services or features. All such guidelines or rules are hereby incorporated by reference into these TOU.

2. DESCRIPTION OF SERVICE

The Site contains information about Wonderful® Pistachios and information on where you can buy Wonderful® Pistachios. The Site and the information, features and services available through the Site may be referred to herein collectively as the "Service". Unless explicitly stated otherwise, any new features or services that augment or enhance the Service in the future shall be considered part of the Service and subject to these TOU. The Service is provided primarily for informational purposes, and is not guaranteed. We shall not be responsible or liable for the accuracy, completeness, usefulness or availability of any information or other content, data, text, URLs, graphics, audio and video clips, advertising or any other materials (collectively, the “Content”) transmitted or made available via the Service. We shall not be responsible or liable for any decisions made in reliance on such information.

3. REGISTRATION

You may be required to register for and create an account with the Service in order to access certain information and features offered through the Service. As part of the registration and account creation process, you will select a password and provide us with certain registration information. You are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password(s) and for all usage or activity on your account, including the use of your account by any person using your password(s). If you choose to register with the Service or otherwise provide personal or other information to the Service, you agree to (a) provide true, accurate, current and complete information about yourself as prompted by the Service's registration form or other areas of the Service, and (b) maintain and promptly update such information to keep it true, accurate, current and complete. If you provide any information to us that is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, or if we have reasonable grounds to suspect that such information is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Service (or any portion thereof).

As a condition of using the Service, you agree to the terms of Wonderful® Pistachios’ Privacy Policy, which may be updated from time to time. Any personal or other information you provide to us is subject to our Privacy Policy. A current version of the privacy policy may be viewed at wonderfulpistachios.com.

4. THIRD PARTY WEB SITES

The Service may provide links to Web sites or resources outside of the Site. Because we have no control over external sites and resources, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the availability of such sites or resources, and does not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any Content, advertising, goods, services or other materials on, available through or provided by such sites or resources. Your correspondence or business dealings with, or participation in promotions of, any Web sites that you find or link to through the Service, including payment and delivery of related goods or services, and any other terms, conditions, warranties or representations associated with such dealings, are solely between you and such Web sites. You agree that we shall not be responsible or liable for any loss or damage of any sort incurred as the result of any such dealings or as the result of the presence of links to such Web sites on the Service.

5. CONNECTING TO SOCIAL NETWORK WEB SITES

If you are a registered user on our Site and you choose to use the Twitter or Facebook connect function, you acknowledge and agree to abide by the relevant terms and conditions for each of these Web sites, or any other social network Web site that we may utilize in the future. The terms and conditions for the Twitter and Facebook Web site may be found at: www.twitter.com and www.facebook.com, respectively.

This function is intended to enable us to connect with Twitter and Facebook so that you can send newsfeeds about your activities to each of these Web sites. Twitter and Facebook may also be able to use information about action you take on our Site.

However, note that where you choose to publish information on the interactive parts of our Site outside of these privacy settings, or in any way other than through Twitter or Facebook, that information will not be protected by us. It is information in the public domain, which may be accessed by any person using the Web in any part of the world and can be found using independent search engines. If you choose to post information to the interactive parts of our Site in this manner, you do so at your own risk.

In addition, you acknowledge and agree that we are not responsible for the availability of these Web sites, or any other social network Web site that we may add to the connect function, and do not endorse and is not responsible or liable for any Content, advertising, goods, services or other materials on, available through or provided by such Web sites or resources.

6. SUBMISSIONS

While we are always happy to hear from you, it is our policy not to accept or consider creative materials, ideas, or suggestions other than those we specifically request. This is to avoid any misunderstandings if your ideas are similar to those we have developed independently. Therefore we must request that you do not send to us any original creative materials such as images, original artwork, etc. Any communication or material you do transmit to the Site by email or otherwise will be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary.

You shall be solely responsible for your own submissions, the posting of any content including, without limitations, photographs, illustrations, audio and video clips and the consequences thereof. You or a third party licensor, as appropriate, shall retain all patent, trademark and copyright to any content you submit, post or display on or through the Service and you are responsible for protecting those rights and obtaining the required consents and authorizations, as appropriate. By posting any submission and content, you hereby grant us or our affiliates the worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty free and perpetual license use or publish such content for any purpose, including, without limitations, reproduction, modification, disclosure, transmission, publication, distribution, creation of derivative works, broadcast and posting in any media throughout the world and in perpetuity without restriction or compensation to you. We are free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques contained in any communication you send to the Site for any purpose whatsoever including, but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and marketing products using such information.

You agree that you will use the Service in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations. In addition, you represent and warrant that you own or otherwise control all of the rights to the content that you submit or post; that the content is accurate; that use of the content you supply does not violate this policy and will not cause injury to any person or entity; and that you will indemnify us and our affiliates for all claims resulting from your actions or content you supply, and hold us and our affiliates harmless from and against all damages, losses and expenses of any kind (including reasonable legal fees and costs) related to such claims. Furthermore, we reserve the right to refuse, accept, post, display or transmit any content in our sole discretion.

7. POSTINGS

Although we may from time to time monitor or review discussions, chats, postings, transmissions, bulletin boards, and the like on the Service, we are under no obligation to do so and assume no responsibility or liability arising from the content of any such locations nor for any error, defamation, libel, slander, omission, falsehood, obscenity, pornography, profanity, danger, or inaccuracy contained in any information within such locations on the Service. You are prohibited from posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, libelous, defamatory, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, pornographic, or profane material or any material that could constitute or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law. We will fully cooperate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity of anyone posting any such information or materials.

8. NO PERSONAL ADVICE OR ENDORSEMENTS

Our Site and its Content (including any postings, comments or information provided by users) are for informational and entertainment purposes only, and is not intended to replace or substitute for any professional financial, medical, legal or other advice. In addition to the disclaimers and limitations of liability set forth in Sections 13, 14 and 15 below, Paramount Farms and its affiliates make no representations or warranties and expressly disclaim any and all liability in connection with any information offered or provided by users of our Site. Any such information offered or provided by users are not tested, substantiated or endorsed by Paramount Farms and individual results may vary and may not be typical for individual consumers.

9. USER CODE OF CONDUCT

We are excited that you and other users are able to use this Service to communicate with each other and share ideas on the Site. However, we want you and all users to be able to feel safe and at ease when using this Site. To do so, we have provided the following guidelines for how to upload Content on the Site in order to avoid causing harm or offense to yourself and others and to avoid having your content and postings removed from the Site.

By using the Service, you agree to these TOU including the User Code of Conduct in this Section.

The Wonderfulpistachio.com community is designed where possible to manage itself. Comments posted on the Site may be reviewed by us, and may be removed if we feel, in our sole discretion, they are inconsistent with these TOU. If a user’s comments are removed several times, it may be necessary to put the user “on probation” – meaning they cannot post anymore comments for a set period of time. If necessary, we may remove the user from the Site altogether at our sole discretion.

If we believe that a user’s behavior is likely to cause offense or harm to other users or to us, or is otherwise unacceptable, we may issue that user with a warning, disable their account and/or terminate or otherwise restrict their access to and use of this Site. In addition, we may remove any content which they have shared or posted upon the Site. We will try to give such users warnings as outlined above, but we are not obliged to give the user any notice.

To protect our users and the reputation of the Site, we may monitor the interaction between users from time to time, but please note that we have no obligation to police it.

We will not take responsibility or liability for the conduct of any person who uses our Site. In addition, we are not responsible or liable for any loss or damage suffered as a result of the use of our Site.

We ask that in using the Site, you show courtesy and respect to other users and the property of others.

You agree:

To behave in a respectful manner to all other users;.

Not to post, or otherwise make available, content which is, in our view, likely to impair the enjoyment and/or use of our Site by other users;.

Not to breach the law or encourage any breach of the law;.

Not to breach the law or encourage any breach of the law;

Not to post, or otherwise make available, content which is, in our view, abusive, offensive, defamatory, obscene, pornographic or of a sexual nature, illegal, threatening, intimidating, in breach of privacy, confidentiality or third party rights or otherwise unacceptable;

Not to post, or otherwise make available, content which, in our view, portrays unacceptable violence;

Not to behave in a way which is threatening, intimidating, harassing or bullying, offensive, abusive, defamatory, discriminatory or demeaning or to stalk or violate the rights of others, including the privacy rights of other individuals;

Not to do, cause or permit anything to be done that may infringe, damage or interfere with any copyright, moral rights, performing rights, design rights, trademark rights or other proprietary or intellectual property rights of Paramount Farms, its affiliates and each of their respective licensors or any third party;

To only upload content which is an original work created by you;

Not to share any information which is confidential to any other person;

Not do anything which will or may damage, interfere with, disrupt access to, overburden, interrupt or impair the functionality of the Site, the materials available on the Site or any software or hardware;

Not to obtain or attempt to obtain unauthorized access to the Site, any part of it or any private or member account areas;

Not to obtain or seek to obtain personal information, confidential information or passwords from any other person;

To be entirely responsible for and keep secret any password used by you (you must change your password if you believe it is no longer secret);

Not to circumvent or attempt to circumvent any filters we may use on the Site;

Not to do anything which may cause any liability to Paramount Farms or to any of its affiliates;

To ensure that individuals featured in any audio and/or visual content you are posting are all over the age of 18;

Not to distort or misrepresent any individual or thing;

Not to register as or on behalf of anyone else, impersonate anyone else, seek to take on a false identity or misrepresent yourself, your identity or your age;

Not post, or otherwise make available, content containing financial information (such as account, credit or debit card details) or information which identifies an individual personally or is capable of identifying an individual personally (such as names, telephone numbers, email addresses or postal addresses);

To respect information you obtain on our Site and use it only in accordance with this User Code of Conduct, TOU and our Privacy Policy;

Not to advertise, promote or endorse any good or services; and

Not use our Site to send any chain letters, junk mail, “spam” material or any other form of bulk communication.

10. MODIFICATIONS TO SERVICE

We reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Service (or any part thereof) with or without notice. You agree that we shall not be liable to you or to any third party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the Service.

11.TERMINATION

We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, immediately and without notice to suspend or terminate these TOU, your account (if you have registered) and/or your ability to access the Site, for any reason including any breach by you of these TOU or conduct by you that we determine to be inappropriate. Without limiting the foregoing, if you post images or Content to the Site that infringe the copyright of any third party, such conduct shall be grounds for immediate termination of your account.

12. OUR PROPRIETARY RIGHTS

You acknowledge and agree that the Service and any necessary software used in connection with the Service (the "Software") contain proprietary and/or confidential information, Content and other materials that are protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws (including, without limitation, copyrights, trademarks, service marks and patents). Except as expressly authorized by us, you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, create derivative works based on, or otherwise use the Software, the Service or any Content contained thereon, in whole or in part.

“Wonderful Pistachios” and “Wonderful” are registered trademarks of Paramount Growers Cooperative, Inc. (“PGC”). PGC will enforce its intellectual property rights in the trademark to the fullest extent of the law.

13. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT:

YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE IS AT YOUR SOLE RISK. THE SERVICE AND ALL PRODUCTS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICE ARE PROVIDED ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS. WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS TO THE OPERATION OF THE SERVICE OR THE INFORMATION, CONTENT, SERVICES OR PRODUCTS INCLUDED OR OFFERED ON OR THROUGH THE SERVICE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT (i) THE SERVICE OR ANY PRODUCTS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS, (ii) THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE, (iii) THE RESULTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE USE OF THE SERVICE OR ANY PRODUCTS PROVIDED THEREIN WILL BE ACCURATE OR RELIABLE, (iv) THE QUALITY OF ANY SERVICES OR INFORMATION OR PRODUCTS OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SERVICE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS, AND (V) ANY ERRORS IN THE SERVICE WILL BE CORRECTED.

ANY MATERIAL OBTAINED FROM THROUGH THE USE OF THE SERVICE IS OBTAINED AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND THAT YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM OBTAINING ANY SUCH MATERIAL.

NO ADVICE OR INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU FROM US OR FROM OR THROUGH THE SERVICE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS OF SERVICE.

14. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

YOU EXPRESSLY UNDERSTAND AND AGREE THAT WE SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR EXEMPLARY DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), RESULTING FROM: (i) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE THE SERVICE OR ANY PRODUCT OBTAINED THROUGH THE SERVICE; (ii) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA; (iii) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE SERVICE; OR (iv) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE SERVICE.

15. EXCLUSIONS AND LIMITATIONS

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU.

16. NOTICE

You acknowledge and agree that the Service and any necessary software used in connection with the Service (the "Software") contain proprietary and/or confidential information, Content and other materials that are protected by applicable intellectual property and other laws (including, without limitation, copyrights, trademarks, service marks and patents). Except as expressly authorized by us, you agree not to modify, rent, lease, loan, sell, distribute, create derivative works based on, or otherwise use the Software, the Service or any Content contained thereon, in whole or in part. “Wonderful Pistachios” and “Wonderful” are registered trademarks of Paramount Growers Cooperative, Inc. (“PGC”). PGC will enforce its intellectual property rights in the trademark to the fullest extent of the law.

17. DIGITAL MILLENNIUM ACT

We are under no obligation to, and do not, scan content used in connection with the Service for the inclusion of illegal or impermissible content. However, we respect the copyright interests of others. It is our policy not to permit materials known by us to infringe another party’s copyright to remain on the Site.

If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, you should provide us with written notice that contains the following information required by the Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), 17 U.S.C. 512: (a) a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; (b) identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works; (c) identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material; (d) information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number and, if available, an e-mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted; (e) a statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and (f) a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed. All DMCA notices should be sent to:

18. ARBITRATION

The sole and exclusive jurisdiction and venue for resolving any controversy or claim arising out of or relating to the TOU or the Service shall be through binding arbitration in Los Angeles County, California, including, without limitation, any dispute with respect to this arbitration provision, any claim in tort, or any claim for violation of any federal, state or local statute, or ordinance or regulation. The arbitration shall be conducted by JAMS/Endispute ("JAMS"), whose rules applicable to such disputes shall be in force, and judgment or the award rendered by the arbitrator may be entered by any court having jurisdiction thereof. There shall be one arbitrator to be mutually selected by the parties, and if the parties cannot so select, the arbitrator shall be appointed by JAMS. The fees of the arbitrator, administrative fees, and the other fees and costs of the arbitration, including, but not limited to, the cost of any record or transcripts of the arbitration, shall be advanced by the parties to the arbitration in equal portions, and, in addition thereto, each such party shall advance the fees of its own attorneys, the expenses of its witnesses and all other expenses connected with presenting its case. THE PARTIES HERETO WAIVE THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN CONNECTION WITH ANY ARBITRABLE CONTROVERSY OR CLAIM.

19. GENERAL INFORMATION

These TOU constitute the entire agreement between you and us and govern your use of the Service, superceding any prior agreements between you and us. You also may be subject to additional terms and conditions that may apply when you use affiliate services, third-party content or third-party software. These TOU and the relationship between you and us shall be governed by the laws of the State of California without regard to its conflict of law provisions. Unless otherwise provided herein, you and we agree to submit to the personal and exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts located within the state of California. Any failure on our part to exercise or enforce any right or provision of these TOU shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of these TOU is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of these TOU remain in full force and effect. You agree that regardless of any statute or law to the contrary, any claim or cause of action arising out of or related to use of the Service or these TOU must be filed within one (1) year after such claim or cause of action arose or be forever barred.

20. CONTACTING US

If you have any questions or comments about these terms, please contact us at the address listed above. Please report any violations of the TOU to [email protected]

Privacy Policy

Effective date: March 2010

Welcome to the Wonderful® Pistachios Web Site, www.wonderfulpistachios.com (the “Site”), a web site operated by Paramount Farms, Inc. d/b/a Wonderful® Pistachios (”we”, “us” or “our”). Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our privacy practices and the choices you can make about the ways in which information about you is collected and used from the Site. We encourage you to read and review the terms of this Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you agree to accept the terms of our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with any part of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Site.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Personally Identifiable Information

To fulfill your requests for information, enable you to participate in our product offerings, and provide you with opportunities to learn about other products and services in which we think you might be interested, we ask that you provide us with certain personally identifiable information. The types of personally identifiable information that may be collected include: name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services. By providing your personal information on our Site, you consent to allow us to use that
information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Any information you disclose voluntarily on our Site or in any forum, blogs or other public areas that we may develop in the future becomes public information. We cannot control the actions of our Site users and advise you to use your discretion in sharing information about yourself on the Internet. All information sharing is optional and done so at your own risk.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We also may collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit many of our Web pages, such as the type of browser you are using (e.g., Firefox, Internet Explorer), the type of operating system you are using, (e.g., Windows Vista, Mac OS), the domain name of your Internet service provider (e.g., Comcast, AT&T), the name of the Web pages you visit, the time you access our Web pages, and the length of time you stay on those pages.

We collect this information in order to determine which areas of our Site are most popular and to enhance your experience with our Site. This information may also be shared with third parties on an aggregate and non-personally identifiable basis. However, please be assured that this information will in no way personally identify you or any other visitors of our Site.

HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION

We use your personally identifiable information to provide the requested information or content, respond to your inquiries about our offerings, respond to a comment made on our blog, offer you other products, programs or services that we believe may be of interest to you, or for other purposes disclosed at the time of collection. We also may use your personally identifiable information to contact you regarding your use of our products or services, or regarding changes to our Privacy Policy, or other policies or terms that affect you and your use of our Site or our products and services. In addition, we may use such information to improve the content and navigation of our Site, or for other internal purposes.

We use the information that you provide about others to enable us to send them information. From time to time, we also may use this information to offer our products, programs, or services to them.

We may combine the information we collect with information available from other sources, including information received from promotional partners or other third parties.

Agents and contractors who have access to personally identifiable information are required to protect this information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy by, for example, not using the information for any purpose other than to carry out the services they are performing for us.

Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information, we cannot assure you that personally identifiable information that we collect will never be disclosed in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

INFORMATION SHARING

We may, from time to time, share personally identifiable information with other companies affiliated with us and unrelated third parties (e.g., retailers, marketers) to enable them to provide users with opportunities to learn of products or services in which they may be interested. You should also be aware that this means that we may transfer information to any country in the world, including the United States and other countries that may not offer the same level of data protection as the country where you reside. Please see the “Your Choices” section below for more information on how you can express your preferences regarding our sharing of information.

We also may disclose personally identifiable information in the following instances:

Legal Action: We may disclose information about our users, including personally identifiable information, when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our Site or applicable laws, or to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our Site. We also may disclose user information whenever we believe disclosure is necessary to limit our legal liability; to protect or defend our rights or property; or protect the safety, rights, or property of our users.

Corporate Change: We may sell, transfer, or otherwise disclose user information, including personally identifiable information, to a successor entity in connection with a corporate merger, consolidation, asset sale, or other corporate change or combination of assets involving us.

In addition, we may disclose anonymous, aggregated user statistics to third parties for a variety of purposes. For example, we may disclose how many individuals visited certain areas of our Site, how many men or women receive our newsletter, or other demographic data about users of our products or services.

YOUR CHOICES

As noted above, we may use the personally identifiable information we collect from you to offer you products and services that may be of interest to you. If you would like to opt out of future communications and/or promotional materials from us, you may indicate this preference by following the unsubscribe instructions at the end of e-mail communications or by logging into your account and changing your communication preferences.

As also noted above, we may, from time to time, share personally identifiable information with companies whose practices are not covered by this Privacy Policy (e.g., other marketers, retailers, participatory databases, and non-profit organizations) that want to market products or services to you. To request that we not share your information for such marketing purposes, you may log into your profile and change your account preferences accordingly or e-mail us at [email protected].

COOKIES & WEB BEACONS

To enhance your experience with our site, many of our Web pages use “cookies.” Cookies are text files we place in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your e-mail address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at our site. However, once you choose to furnish the site with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.

We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our site. For example, we may use cookies to personalize your experience at our Web pages (e.g., to recognize you by name when you return to our site), save your password in password-protected areas, and enable you to use shopping carts on our sites. We also may use cookies to offer you products, programs, or services.

Cookies do not cause damage to your computer systems or files, and only the website that transferred a particular cookie to you can read, modify or delete such cookie. You always have the option of disabling cookies using your browser preferences. Most browsers allow you to delete existing cookies, to automatically decline cookies or to be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer of particular cookies to your computer. However, please be aware that some features of our Site may not function properly or may be slower if you refuse cookies. We do not control cookies that you may occasionally get from third-party sites.

“Web beacons” or clear .gifs are small pieces of code placed on a Web page to monitor the behavior of and collect data about the visitors viewing a Web page. For example, Web beacons can be used to count the users who visit a Web page or to deliver a cookie to the browser of a visitor viewing that page. We may use Web beacons from third party Web analytics services on this Site from time to time for these and other purposes. The service does not collect personally identifiable information that you do not voluntarily enter in this Site.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION BY THIRD-PARTY SITES AND SPONSORS

We may, from time to time, offer content (e.g., contests, sweepstakes, or promotions) that is sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties, including affiliated businesses. By virtue of these relationships, the third parties may obtain personally identifiable information that visitors voluntarily submit to participate in the site activity. We have no control over these third parties’ use of this information. Since these third parties will use your information in accordance with their own privacy practices, you should check their websites for information regarding their privacy policies. We will notify you at the time of requesting personally identifiable information if these third parties will obtain such information.

We may use a reputable third party to present or serve the advertisements that you may see at our Web pages. These third-party ad servers may use cookies, Web beacons, clear .gifs, or similar technologies to help present such advertisements, and to help measure and research the advertisements’ effectiveness. The use of these technologies by these third-party ad servers is subject to their own privacy policies and is not covered by our Privacy Policy.

We and our advertisers may use third parties to serve or present the ads that appear on our site and to conduct research about the advertisements. For more information about third-party ad servers, please visit: www.networkadvertising.org.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Our Site may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us and whose information practices may be different than ours. You should consult the other sites’ privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, these third parties. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites and cannot guarantee the security of any of your personal information collected there.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY

We have put in place physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access to, maintain security of, and correctly use the information we collect. Personally identifiable information and account activity are also protected through the use of e-mail addresses and passwords. In order to maintain the security of your information, you should protect the confidentiality of such information used to log into your account. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and cannot be responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personal information.

HOW YOU CAN ACCESS AND UPDATE INFORMATION

If you have previously provided any personally identifiable information to us by way of our Site, you retain the right to review, correct, update, delete or otherwise modify such information.

To access the personally identifiable information that we have collected about you that we maintain, or to correct factual errors in such information, simply log into your account using your e-mail address and password to update your information. Or you may also contact us at the “Contact” address, telephone number or e-mail provided below.

To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

INTERNATIONAL VISITORS

Information we collect will be transferred to and processed in the United States where our central database is operated. The privacy laws of the U.S. may not be as comprehensive as the data protection laws of the European Union and elsewhere. Please be assured that we take reasonable steps to ensure that your privacy is protected and implement necessary measures on an ongoing basis to keep your personal information secure. By providing us with your personally identifiable information, you consent to its use in accordance with this Privacy Policy, including the transfer of personally identifiable information relating to you to our computer systems in the United States.

PRIVACY POLICY FOR MINORS

We do not knowingly collect information from minors. If you are under the age of 18, we request that you do not provide any personally identifiable information to us.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

From time to time, we reserve the right to make updates to this Privacy Policy without prior notice to you. We encourage you to periodically check back and review this Privacy Policy so that you always will know what information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it. Your continued use of the Site following any changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed to constitute your acceptance of such change.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or its implementation, you may contact us at: